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and [sc. also attested is the related term] λειποτάκτης , [meaning] one who flees war.[1]Agathias [writes]: "[Sindual] used to think it something shameful and ignoble if, with [so great] a war under way, he and those around him were to be convicted of desertion."[2] "Heraclius the Roman emperor used to impose penalties of [= for] desertion on those straying from Roman power."[3]